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New York Times, Thursday, January 21, 2010

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Down : Tristan's love
TotalDebutLatest
2197/31/19952/23/2016
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RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
30221.54553%
Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 174 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 90%
Jim Horne notes:

The print version of this puzzle (PDF) has nothing in the corners.

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© 2010, The New York Times1/21/10 ( No. 21,989 )
Across
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"Don't take offense at that" : NOTHINGPERSONAL
9
Was free : COSTNOTHING
13
Some fairly difficult odds : FIVETOONE
14
1983 Gary Busey comedy : DCCAB
16
Major role in "Troy" : AGAMEMNON
17
Performer in a seven-million-gallon tank : SHAMU
18
Affirmations to pitchers : NODS
19
Univ. helpers : TAS
21
Dustup : SPAT
22
Stick on a pub wall : CUE
23
Put off till tomorrow, say : SLEEPON
27
It may have a big mouth : URN
28
Since Jan. 1 : YTD
29
Ballad's end? : EER
30
"We shun it ___ it comes": Emily Dickinson : ERE
31
It's not to be believed : LIE
32
Microscope part : OPTIC
34
Wide of the mark : ERRANT
36
What this puzzle's theme does? : CUTSCORNERS
38
Occurring relatively soon : NEARER
40
Haven : OASIS
41
Brevipennate bird : EMU
42
Cat on the prowl : TOM
44
British character in "Zorro" : ZED
45
1992 hit "Life ___ Highway" : ISA
48
Struck (out) : XED
49
Hardly fops : SLOVENS
51
Lambert Airport's home: Abbr. : STL
52
Speaker in the Hall of Fame : TRIS
54
What might charge a going rate? : LOO
55
Brand at a checkout counter that's also the name of a Phoenix radio station : KOOL
56
Seven-footers' jeans sizes, say : TALLS
58
Green mold in the fridge : LIMEJELLO
62
Pueblo pottery : OLLAS
63
"Seinfeld" co-star : ALEXANDER
64
Loan lure, maybe : NOTHINGDOWN
65
Daring person's cry : HEREGOESNOTHING
Down
1
Eat an entire cake, say : PIGOUT
2
Sidestepped : EVADED
3
Bedtime phenomena : REMS
4
Véronique, for one: Abbr. : STE
5
___-pah band : OOM
6
Vote in Vichy : NON
7
Make ___ of : ANOTE
8
Delaware tribe : LENAPE
9
Alternatives to downloads : CDS
10
Newspaper publisher Arthur ___ Sulzberger : OCHS
11
Shoulder blades : SCAPULAS
12
Rain forest monkey : TAMARIN
13
Free of bells and whistles : NOTHINGFANCY
15
"Swish!" : NOTHINGBUTNET
20
Author of the 1965 biography "Kennedy" : SORENSEN
23
Disney's dwarfs and others : SEPTETS
24
"It's game time ...!" : LETSROLL
25
___ the Midget, regular on "The Howard Stern Show" : ERIC
26
50 mythical sea nymphs : NEREIDS
32
Sinclair Lewis novel "___ Mr. Wrenn" : OUR
33
Corp. manager of day-to-day affairs : COO
35
Things with xings : RRS
36
Authoritarian Spanish leader : CAUDILLO
37
Bulldoze : RAZE
38
A nominal fee : NEXTTONOTHING
39
Ring rock : EMERALD
43
Dough : MOOLAH
45
Tristan's love : ISOLDE
46
Opera house attire : STOLES
47
Betting option : ALLORNOTHING
50
Wedding dress fabric : VOILE
53
Part of many a KFC order : SLAW
55
Numbers game : KENO
57
Application datum: Abbr. : SSN
59
On a map it may be colored bleu : MER
60
Program file extension : EXE
61
XK or XKE, for short : JAG

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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